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Younger patients should receive priority when lifesaving treatment is scarce

Competent adults should be allowed to sell a kidney

Publicly funded healthcare should cover infertility treatment

Creating human embryos solely for experimentation should be permitted

Medicare for All is a viable solution to the U.S. healthcare crisis

Placebo-controlled trials should be required before approving new medicines

Updated vaccines should undergo full clinical trials before approval

New medicines should have to outperform existing treatments before approval

Governments should license publicly funded drug patents to competitors when prices are unaffordable

Medical research grants should be allocated by lottery among proposals that meet a quality threshold

Consenting adults should be allowed to join human infection trials without an effective rescue treatment

Drugs for serious illnesses should qualify for accelerated approval based on biomarkers before patient benefit is proven

Terminally ill patients should be allowed experimental drugs before trials establish effectiveness

Public health systems should prioritize total health gains over treating the sickest first

Adults should be allowed attention-enhancing drugs even without a medical disorder

Psychedelics should be legal for therapeutic use

Healthcare should be free for everyone

Everyone should automatically be an organ donor unless they opt out

Circumcising babies for religious reasons should be illegal

Parents have the right to feed raw dairy products to their children